Eldest son of Henry Creswick Dixon and Kate Dixon, of Eythorne, Leura Grove, Upper Hawthorn, Victoria. Native of Wattle Flat, Castlemaine, Victoria.
Regimental number 2575
School Oakvale State School, Victoria
Other training Australian Coaching College
Religion Baptist
Occupation Clerk
Address Cythorne, Leura Grove, Upper Hawthorn, Victoria
Marital status Single
Age at embarkation 21
Next of kin Father, H Dixon, Cythorne, Leura Grove, Upper Hawthorn, Victoria
Previous military service Served for 2 years in the 48th Infantry, Citizen Military Forces.
Enlistment date 17 May 1915, Melbourne, Victoria
Rank on enlistment Private
Unit name 7th Battalion, 8th Reinforcement
Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A68 Anchises on 26 August 1915
Rank from Nominal Roll Lance Sergeant
Unit from Nominal Roll 59th Battalion
Fate Killed in Action 19 July 1916
Age at death from cemetery records 22
Place of burial No known grave
Commemoration details V.C. Corner (Panel No 15), Australian Cemetery Memorial, Fromelles, France
Panel number 167, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial.
War service :-- Western Front
Admitted to ANZAC Advanced Base, Mudros, 18 November 1915, ex-Alexandria; transferred to No 2 Australian Stationary Hospital, Mudros, 19 November 1915; to No 3 Canadian Stationary Hospital, Mudros, 19 November 1915 (mumps); to ANZAC Advanced Base, Mudros, 6 December 1915.
Taken on strength of 7th Bn, Sarpi Camp, Lemnos, 24 December 1915, and reverted to the rank of Private.
Disembarked Alexandria, 7 January 1916 (general Gallipoli evacuation).
Transferred to 59th Bn, 24 February 1916; taken on strength of 59th Bn, Tel el Kebir, 24 February 1916.
Promoted Corporal, Duntroon Plateau, 20 April 1916.
Embarked Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 18 June 1916; disembarked Marseilles, France, 29 June 1916.
Promoted Lance Sergeant, 13 July 1916.
Posted missing, 19 July 1916.
Court of Enquiry, held in the field, 29 August 1917, pronounced fate as 'Killed in Action, 19 July 1916'.
Note on B.103, 'presumed buried at 5J9043 to 5K0251 in No Man's Land[,] Sheet Hazebrouck 5a'.
Sergeant Dixon was reported as prisoner at Hotel de la Paix, Leysin, Switzerland, in February 1917. By May 1917, it had been established this report false and there was no trace of him at this time.
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Regimental number 2575
School Oakvale State School, Victoria
Other training Australian Coaching College
Religion Baptist
Occupation Clerk
Address Cythorne, Leura Grove, Upper Hawthorn, Victoria
Marital status Single
Age at embarkation 21
Next of kin Father, H Dixon, Cythorne, Leura Grove, Upper Hawthorn, Victoria
Previous military service Served for 2 years in the 48th Infantry, Citizen Military Forces.
Enlistment date 17 May 1915, Melbourne, Victoria
Rank on enlistment Private
Unit name 7th Battalion, 8th Reinforcement
Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A68 Anchises on 26 August 1915
Rank from Nominal Roll Lance Sergeant
Unit from Nominal Roll 59th Battalion
Fate Killed in Action 19 July 1916
Age at death from cemetery records 22
Place of burial No known grave
Commemoration details V.C. Corner (Panel No 15), Australian Cemetery Memorial, Fromelles, France
Panel number 167, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial.
War service :-- Western Front
Admitted to ANZAC Advanced Base, Mudros, 18 November 1915, ex-Alexandria; transferred to No 2 Australian Stationary Hospital, Mudros, 19 November 1915; to No 3 Canadian Stationary Hospital, Mudros, 19 November 1915 (mumps); to ANZAC Advanced Base, Mudros, 6 December 1915.
Taken on strength of 7th Bn, Sarpi Camp, Lemnos, 24 December 1915, and reverted to the rank of Private.
Disembarked Alexandria, 7 January 1916 (general Gallipoli evacuation).
Transferred to 59th Bn, 24 February 1916; taken on strength of 59th Bn, Tel el Kebir, 24 February 1916.
Promoted Corporal, Duntroon Plateau, 20 April 1916.
Embarked Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 18 June 1916; disembarked Marseilles, France, 29 June 1916.
Promoted Lance Sergeant, 13 July 1916.
Posted missing, 19 July 1916.
Court of Enquiry, held in the field, 29 August 1917, pronounced fate as 'Killed in Action, 19 July 1916'.
Note on B.103, 'presumed buried at 5J9043 to 5K0251 in No Man's Land[,] Sheet Hazebrouck 5a'.
Sergeant Dixon was reported as prisoner at Hotel de la Paix, Leysin, Switzerland, in February 1917. By May 1917, it had been established this report false and there was no trace of him at this time.
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Eldest son of Henry Creswick Dixon and Kate Dixon, of Eythorne, Leura Grove, Upper Hawthorn, Victoria. Native of Wattle Flat, Castlemaine, Victoria.
Regimental number 2575
School Oakvale State School, Victoria
Other training Australian Coaching College
Religion Baptist
Occupation Clerk
Address Cythorne, Leura Grove, Upper Hawthorn, Victoria
Marital status Single
Age at embarkation 21
Next of kin Father, H Dixon, Cythorne, Leura Grove, Upper Hawthorn, Victoria
Previous military service Served for 2 years in the 48th Infantry, Citizen Military Forces.
Enlistment date 17 May 1915, Melbourne, Victoria
Rank on enlistment Private
Unit name 7th Battalion, 8th Reinforcement
Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A68 Anchises on 26 August 1915
Rank from Nominal Roll Lance Sergeant
Unit from Nominal Roll 59th Battalion
Fate Killed in Action 19 July 1916
Age at death from cemetery records 22
Place of burial No known grave
Commemoration details V.C. Corner (Panel No 15), Australian Cemetery Memorial, Fromelles, France
Panel number 167, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial.
War service :-- Western Front
Admitted to ANZAC Advanced Base, Mudros, 18 November 1915, ex-Alexandria; transferred to No 2 Australian Stationary Hospital, Mudros, 19 November 1915; to No 3 Canadian Stationary Hospital, Mudros, 19 November 1915 (mumps); to ANZAC Advanced Base, Mudros, 6 December 1915.
Taken on strength of 7th Bn, Sarpi Camp, Lemnos, 24 December 1915, and reverted to the rank of Private.
Disembarked Alexandria, 7 January 1916 (general Gallipoli evacuation).
Transferred to 59th Bn, 24 February 1916; taken on strength of 59th Bn, Tel el Kebir, 24 February 1916.
Promoted Corporal, Duntroon Plateau, 20 April 1916.
Embarked Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 18 June 1916; disembarked Marseilles, France, 29 June 1916.
Promoted Lance Sergeant, 13 July 1916.
Posted missing, 19 July 1916.
Court of Enquiry, held in the field, 29 August 1917, pronounced fate as 'Killed in Action, 19 July 1916'.
Note on B.103, 'presumed buried at 5J9043 to 5K0251 in No Man's Land[,] Sheet Hazebrouck 5a'.
Sergeant Dixon was reported as prisoner at Hotel de la Paix, Leysin, Switzerland, in February 1917. By May 1917, it had been established this report false and there was no trace of him at this time.
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Regimental number 2575
School Oakvale State School, Victoria
Other training Australian Coaching College
Religion Baptist
Occupation Clerk
Address Cythorne, Leura Grove, Upper Hawthorn, Victoria
Marital status Single
Age at embarkation 21
Next of kin Father, H Dixon, Cythorne, Leura Grove, Upper Hawthorn, Victoria
Previous military service Served for 2 years in the 48th Infantry, Citizen Military Forces.
Enlistment date 17 May 1915, Melbourne, Victoria
Rank on enlistment Private
Unit name 7th Battalion, 8th Reinforcement
Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A68 Anchises on 26 August 1915
Rank from Nominal Roll Lance Sergeant
Unit from Nominal Roll 59th Battalion
Fate Killed in Action 19 July 1916
Age at death from cemetery records 22
Place of burial No known grave
Commemoration details V.C. Corner (Panel No 15), Australian Cemetery Memorial, Fromelles, France
Panel number 167, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial.
War service :-- Western Front
Admitted to ANZAC Advanced Base, Mudros, 18 November 1915, ex-Alexandria; transferred to No 2 Australian Stationary Hospital, Mudros, 19 November 1915; to No 3 Canadian Stationary Hospital, Mudros, 19 November 1915 (mumps); to ANZAC Advanced Base, Mudros, 6 December 1915.
Taken on strength of 7th Bn, Sarpi Camp, Lemnos, 24 December 1915, and reverted to the rank of Private.
Disembarked Alexandria, 7 January 1916 (general Gallipoli evacuation).
Transferred to 59th Bn, 24 February 1916; taken on strength of 59th Bn, Tel el Kebir, 24 February 1916.
Promoted Corporal, Duntroon Plateau, 20 April 1916.
Embarked Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 18 June 1916; disembarked Marseilles, France, 29 June 1916.
Promoted Lance Sergeant, 13 July 1916.
Posted missing, 19 July 1916.
Court of Enquiry, held in the field, 29 August 1917, pronounced fate as 'Killed in Action, 19 July 1916'.
Note on B.103, 'presumed buried at 5J9043 to 5K0251 in No Man's Land[,] Sheet Hazebrouck 5a'.
Sergeant Dixon was reported as prisoner at Hotel de la Paix, Leysin, Switzerland, in February 1917. By May 1917, it had been established this report false and there was no trace of him at this time.
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Gravesite Details
Lance Sergeant, 59th Battalion, Australian Infantry, A.I.F. Killed in action. Age: 22.
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